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List:       qmail-ldap
Subject:    Re: Salt for Qmail-Ldap?
From:       Claudio Jeker <jeker () n-r-g ! com>
Date:       2004-11-30 14:46:24
Message-ID: 20041130142210.GA3510 () diehard ! n-r-g ! com
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:01:22AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> Claudio,
> I've got that... if someone wanted to generate the password on another
> system (say a Windows database backend that talked to the LDAP
> server), what would you use?  Something that generated a password
> based on the unix crypt format?
> 

The question is what formats are supported by the software that
authenticates the user. 
A user can be authenticated by rebinding to the ldap database or by
fetching the UserPassword and comparing that internaly. In the frist case
the LDAP server needs to know the password format in the other case the
app itself needs to implement the algorithm.
Generating the hash is normaly not a big issue as many scripting languages
have functions for this.

-- 
:wq Claudio
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